1. During my field experience
One element of being commited to placement in an elementary school
the learning of students is understanding resource room, I worked with students that
how students differ from each other, and had various learning disabilities or special
having knowledge of the various types of
disabilities or impairments they may have. needs, and watched how my cooperating
In EDU 3300, I learned about teacher exhibited patience and
many types of disabilities and how to perseverance in working with the students
identify potential disabilities, as well as to make sure they were learning as well as
strategies of how to work with students they possibly could.
with these exceptionalities. Even as a Working with students in the
teacher who only plans to teach general resource room environment was a great
education classrooms, it is important to be experience. I learned of the importance of
able to identify students who may need to differentiated instruction, and saw how it
be referred for special education help or was helpful to the students who were
receive treatment for other impairments struggling. Although the students did
such as hearing or vision problems. spend part of their time in general
education classroom learning lessons with
the rest of the peers, the resource room
gave them the accomodations and
modifications needed to help them learn.
Assessing the needs of students
and being familiar with impairments of all
types is a responsibility for teachers, with
the goal of helping students learn better.